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This task requires students to show how to estimate numbers of items in some multiplication problems using any acceptable estimation strategy.

Students show how they would carry out estimation of multiplication tasks.

In this practical task students use play money to show fractions of dollar amounts.

Students show or explain how to share equally amongst a number of people.

Students work out fractional values of whole numbers in a range of contexts and show their working.

Students order fractions from smallest to greatest, and work out fractions of an amount.

Students show or explain how to share cakes and pizzas equally amongst a number of people.

Students show how to calculate maths problems involving fractions as a part and as a whole.

Students convert heights of a building into the percentage of the given total height, explaining how they solved some conversions. Assessment focus is on how they calculate these heights and what strategies they use.

Students first do the science activity Throwing Balloons 2 (PW2548) where they predict, observe, and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Then the students do this writing task where they describe the balloon and what happened when it was thrown, and explain why they think it moved the way it did. Six annotated exemplars of student scripts (writing) are included under the "Working with Students" tab.

Students calculate the cost of hiring a search and rescue helicopter and compare this cost with another helicopter company's charges.

Students explore multiplicative relationships by completing multiplication equations.

Students show how to break given amounts into a number of equal sized groups and find the amount each person gets.

Students sort fractions into order from smallest to largest

Students are asked to read a short story and to insert the speech marks required to punctuate the direct speech in the story.

Students are asked to read a short story and to insert the commas and speech marks required to indicate the direct speech in the story.

Students use sticks to continue given patterns, and identify the number of sticks needed to make the new shapes in the pattern

Students enlarge a shape made of cubes and explore the relationship between the scale factor and volume.

Students calculate the lengths and areas of a road sign.

Students complete a table showing the number of rungs for different sized ladders. They complete a sentence stating the rule to calculate the number of rungs given the length, and use the rule to identify if a ladder, at a lean, will reach a given height and show their working.

Students identify phrases within sentences which provide additional information, and enclose these phrases using commas.

Students calculate fraction division problems and show their working.

Students read a visual presentation about manufacturing processes and identify information in the text and why certain visual techniques are used.

This resource requires students to match ten ideas about the different parts to books with the correct term.

Students estimate a multiplication problem, share their methods, discuss the rounding method, and then do more estimation problems using rounding.